But the pundits are asking: where will the money come from for these multi-billion dollar construction projects?
Multi-billion dollar construction projects are under way and many more are in the planning stage by both the public and private sectors.
In Miami, a city perilously perched atop a very porous limestone, two multibillion-dollar construction projects are under way, despite the fact that parts of the city routinely flood during high tides and that widespread flooding by the rising sea in a few decades is a virtual certainty.
There are plans for a half billion dollars in construction projects, including a new hospital.
There's no designer-led master plan, no single billion-dollar construction project, no star architect.
Though a highway crossing in the Santa Monicas may seem like an expensive indulgence — a multimillion-dollar construction project for cats?
As a congressman, he voted against every federal stimulus package, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was passed in 2009 and eventually saw the disbursement of more than eight hundred billion dollars for construction projects, corporate tax credits, job training, and technology research, among other things.
We're facing, you know, an economic crisis, the paper this morning said there's, you know, five billion dollars of construction projects which just stopped, you know, that's, you know — conversations a year ago, that's — beside that, I don't, as I said, I have conversations with a lot of people, and those are confidential.
Between 2004 and 2014, Mammadov family businesses spent more than half a billion dollars on large construction projects.
The billion dollars' worth of construction projects included not just the hefty wave defenses but also entire neighborhoods built on higher ground and a few flourishes, like a futuristic $15 million tsunami memorial hall featuring a stained glass panel for each victim.
They sat around a conference table in a room decorated with stuffed animals and faded forest-themed tapestry, reviewing a list of twenty-five major construction projects: a seven-million-dollar job to improve Turtle Back Zoo, in West Orange; a two-million-dollar bridge project for the Orange Reservoir.
